Interval timing and optimal foraging

Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Interval Timing

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 113-142

  Bateson, Melissa ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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